Garmin Forerunner 165 Music GPS Multisport Watch

Sport is more than a pastime for you? Are you motivated and want to push your performance? Then the Forerunner 165 Music by GARMIN is just the right running smartwatch for you!

With a brilliant AMOLED touch display, extensive smart notifications, a long battery life and a huge range of training, fitness and activity features, this stylish smartwatch will impress you during sports as well as in everyday life.
And so that even long endurance sessions won’t become boring, the GARMIN Forerunner 165 Music can play your music even without a paired smartphone. Simply upload songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music account to the watch's internal memory and listen to your favourite songs on your wireless headphones.

So what are you waiting for?

Achieve your goals!

• PACE, DISTANCE, HEART RATE: The easy-to-use Forerunner 165 smartwatch provides all essential features, including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate measurement.
• DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS: Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your GARMIN Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
• GARMIN COACH: Start an interactive training for your 5 km, 10 km run or half marathon. Choose from three coaches and have a free, adaptive training plan created according to your schedule.
• COMPETITION CALENDAR: Be prepared for your next competition! Add upcoming running or cycling events to your GARMIN Connect™ calendar. The daily suggested workouts will adapt according to the competition details. You even get a completion time prediction.
• MORNING REPORT*: Receive an overview of your sleep and training outlook as soon as you wake up – alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customise the report to fit your needs.
• TRAINING EFFECT: With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your aerobic and anaerobic fitness. It also helps you to understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.


Plan your training!

• LONG BATTERY LIFE: With up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training.
• RECOVERY TIME: After each workout, the recovery time tells you when you are ready for your next activity. It is based on the training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activities and sleep.
• SLEEP MONITORING AND SLEEP SCORE: Understand how your body is recovering with sleep score, get a breakdown of your sleep stages, your heart and breathing rate and gain detailed insight for improved sleep quality.
• BODY BATTERY™*: Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest. You can even get details and insights on how sleep, naps, activities and stress impact your energy.
• COURSES: Create or find existing courses in GARMIN Connect™ and from third-party platforms. Upload them to your smartwatch and navigate on your tour.
• RACE PREDICTOR: This function combines different values to give you an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and a marathon.
• NAP DETECTION: Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be.
• WOMEN'S HEALTH TRACKING: Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.


Prepare yourself!

• WRIST-BASED HEART RATE*: Constant measurement of your heart rate helps you gauge how hard you work during activities.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS: Get measurements of crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more. This will help you improve your running form and technique.
• VO2 MAX: See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
• INTENSITY MINUTES: Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help meet your goals
• HRV STATUS: Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability.
• AUDIO PROMPTS: Get audio updates about your performance when paired to your smartphone.
• STRESS TRACKING: Find out if you're having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
• PULSE OX SENSOR**: Check your blood oxygen level to assess acclimatisation to altitude or to detect breathing difficulties during sleep.
• WORKOUTS: Browse the GARMIN Connect™ app for dozens of free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send them to your smartwatch.
• HEALTH SNAPSHOT™: Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
• ACTIVITY TRACKING: Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist.
• FITNESS AGE: This feature uses the chronological age, your weekly activity, your resting heart rate and your BMI or body fat percentage to calculate whether your body is younger or older than your actual age.


Measure your performance!

• MULTI-GNSS: Our built-in sensors connect to multiple satellite systems so you track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance and pace.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER: See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
• BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS: Tap in to more than 25 built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
• TRACK RUNNING: Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres.
• PACEPRO™: Plan your race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.


Stay connected!

• MUSIC: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music account to listen to music with your wireless headphones without a smartphone.
• SAFETY AND TRACKING***: If the Forerunner 165 senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location to your emergency contacts. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
• GARMIN PAY™: Enjoy the freedom of being on the move without cash. Simply make contactless payments with your smartwatch. For information on participating banks, visit garmin.com/garminpay/banks.
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS: Receive emails, texts and more on your smartwatch when paired with your compatible iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• LIVETRACK FEATURE**: Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view preplanned courses.
• GARMIN CONNECT™ APP: The GARMIN Connect™ app shows you all the information about your health, fitness and activities. Update your smartwatch, get insights, become part of the community and more.
• CONNECT IQ™ STORE: Upload display designs, data fields and apps to your paired smartwatch.

Note:
* Fitness tracker accuracy information at garmin.com/atdisclaimer.
** Not a medical device for diagnosis or treatment. For more information, visit garmin.com/ataccuracy.
*** Requirements and restrictions for safety and tracking features are available at garmin.com/safety.


Watch features:
• Time/date
• GPS time sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stop watch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health monitoring:
• Wrist-based heart rate (constant - every second)
• Daily resting heart rate
• Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• PULSE OX blood oxygen saturation (spot-check and optional all-day acclimatisation and during sleep)
• Fitness age
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• All-day stress tracking
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation timer
• Breathing exercises
• Sleep analysis (advanced, sleep score & insights)
• Nap detection
• Hydration (in GARMIN Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women’s health tracking (in GARMIN Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Health Snapshot™

Sensors:
• GPS
• GLONASS
• Galileo
• Heart rate measurement on the wrist (GARMIN Elevate™ technology)
• Pulse oximeter acclimatisation (PULSE-OX data for blood oxygen saturation (randomly, during sleep, throughout the day))
• Barometric altimeter
• Compass
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer
• Ambient light sensor

Daily smart functions (partially requires smartphone connection):
• Smart Notifications
• Smart notifications with image display on the watch (Android™ only)
• Text response / reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• Morning report
• Calendar
• Weather
• Real-time setting synchronisation with GARMIN Connect™ Mobile
• Energy saving mode: Customisable energy-saving clock mode
• Music features (smartphone control)
• Plays music
• Internal music memory
• Find my Phone feature
• Virb® remote control
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
• Compatible with GARMIN Connect™ Mobile
• Compatible with GARMIN Connect IQ™
• GARMIN Connect IQ™ Shop directly on the device
• GARMIN Pay™ (more information as well as participating banks at www.garmin.com/en-GB/garminpay/banks/ )

Safety and tracking features (requires connection with smartphone):
• Livetrack
• Live Event enabling (only Android™)
• Incident detection during select activities
• Accident notification on the smartphone with wearables
• Emergency assistance

Activity tracking features:
• Step counter
• Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset)
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance travelled
• Intensity minutes
• TrueUp™ (switch between compatible devices and sync activity data)
• Move IQ™ (automatic activity detection)
• GARMIN Connect challenges (optional Connect IQ app)

Training, planning and analysis features:
• Heart-rate zones
• Heart-rate alerts
• Heart-rate calories
• % HR Max
• % HFR (percent of your heart rate reserves (maximum heart rate minus resting heart rate))
• Recharge time
• Automatic maximum heart rate
• Morning report
• Competition calendar
• HFV status
• Training readiness
• Heart rate transmission (sends heart rate data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
• Respiration rate during exercise (with compatible accessories)
• GPS speed and distance
• Customisable screens
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto Pause®
• Interval training
• Advanced workouts
• Downloadable training plans
• HRM running pace and distance
• Auto Lap®
• Manual lap
• Recovery timer
• Adjustable lap alarm
• VO2 Max
• VO2 Max trail running
• Training effects (aerobic and anaerobic)
• Training effect labels (primary use)
• Optimised recovery time
• Daily training suggestions (7 days)
• Audio prompts (optional, when connected to a compatible smartphone)
• End time
• Route guidance
• Screen and/or button lock
• Activity history on the watch
• Physio TrueUp™ (switch between compatible devices and sync training data)

Running features:
• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Running efficiency
• Vertical movement and vertical ratio (the upward and downward movement of your running motion and the effort-benefit ratio of your stride length).
• Ground contact time
• Step length (real time)
• Running cadence (number of steps per minute)
• Distance travelled
• PacePro™ strategies
• Run workouts
• Runtime estimate
• Route and weather-specific run forecast
• Running sensor compatible
• Run/Walk/Stand detection

Cycling features:
• Compatible with cadence and speed sensors
• Time or distance alerts (when you reach a value you set, you get an alert)
• Routes (race against previous activities)
• Varia™ compatible (Varia Vision™, Varia™ radar, Varia™ bike lights)

Swimming features:
• Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
• Practice logging
• Basic rest timer (up from 0)
• Recharge timer with “repeat on”
• Auto rest (only for pool swimming)
• Time and distance alerts
• Countdown start
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate measurement

Gym and fitness equipment:
• Cardio workouts
• Strength workouts
• HIIT training
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• Automatic rep counting

Outdoor features:
• Point to point navigation
• Real-time track logging:
• Back to start (shortest stretch back to the starting point)
• TracBack® (along the route so far and the route back to the starting point)
• UltraTrack Mode
• Altitude profile
• Distance to goal
• Total ascent/descent
• Recovery timer
• Upcoming elevation profiles
• Area calculation (over Connect IQ™)
• Fishing forecast (via Connect IQ™)
• Solar and lunar calendar (over Connect IQ™)

GARMIN Connect™ features:
• Synchronisation (transmission of training sessions) via Bluetooth Smart via smartphone or via cable with your PC/Mac
• Save, analyse, plan and share activities in social networks
• Live Tracking feature: show your friends or family your position in real time
• Upload training data
• Training plans:
• Map view
• Daily overview
• Diagram overviews
• Online challenges
• Comment the activities of other users


Note:
Smartphone compatibility of GARMIN Connect™ app (system requirements): http://www.garmin.com/en-GB/ble

GARMIN Connect IQ™ features:
• Create individual display designs, integration of smartphone photos as display background
• Download apps and widgets for additional features
• Customise data fields


Technical details:
• Compatible with ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart (BLE) sensors
• Interfaces: ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart, WLAN
• Battery: lithium-ion
• Display size: Ø 1.2" (30.4 mm)
• AMOLED colour display (optional always-on display)
• Resolution: 390 × 390 pixels
• Control: touchscreen and five buttons
• Waterproof rating: swimming, 5 ATM (corresponds to a test pressure approx. 50 metres under water)
• Watch glass material: chemically reinforced glass
• Material bezel: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Case material: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Dimensions: approx. 43 × 43 × 11.6 mm
• Strap material: silicone (20 mm wide; quick-change system; fits wrists with a circumference of 126 to 203 mm)
• Memory/History: 4 GB
• Weight: approx. 39 g

Battery life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 11 days
• Energy-saving mode: up to 20 days
• GNSS mode with GPS only: up to 19 hours
• GNSS mode with all systems: up to 17 hours
• GNSS mode only with GPS and music: up to 7 hours
• GNSS mode with all systems and music: up to 6.5 hours

In the box:
• 1 GARMIN Forerunner 165 GPS multisport watch
• 1 USB power supply/charger (USB unit NOT included)
• 1 quick start manual